If you think Earth’s seasons are extreme, Uranus takes it to another level! Because it spins on its side, each pole experiences 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness. But ...

New research into Uranus and Neptune has revealed some striking information. Much about these two ice giants is still unknown, with missions to explore them more in-depth still in the works. Despite ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a weird plasma burst from the sun. When you purchase through links on our site ...

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's third ...

The 29th moon found to be orbiting the solar system’s 7th planet is about six miles wide. By Katrina Miller The space around Uranus just got a bit more crowded. On Tuesday, astronomers using the James ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event. Much of the understanding of the ...

Our understanding of Uranus could have been wrong for nearly four decades, new research suggests — and a weird space weather event is likely to blame. Much of what we know about Uranus is taken from ...

Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus has ...